Note: These are sources I considered using in this project. Not all got used in the final version.

Secondary Sources

Nightmare on Mainstreet (book) - Mark EdmundsonDanse Macabre (book) - Stephen KingThe "Uncanny" (essay) - Sigmund FreudFrom Frankenstein's Monster to Lester Ballard: The Evolving Gothic Monster (essay) - Ashley Craig LancasterGothic Horror (anthology) - Edited by Clive Bloom
  • "On Horror and Subversion" - Extract by CliveBarker
  • "On Stephen King" - Extract from Whitley Strieber
  • "The Literature of Horror" - Extract by David Punter
  • "On Victorian Horror" - Extract by Manuel Aguirre
  • "On Algernon Blackwood" - Hilaire Belloc


Primary Texts referred to in Secondary Readings
The Sandman (short story) by E.T.A. Hoffman (cf. Freud)Dracula by Bram Stoker (cf. King)The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (cf. King)Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (cf. King)The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (cf. King)The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (cf. King)

The Willows by Algernon Blackwood (cf. Hilaire Belloc)

Other Primary Texts
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu
Herbert West--Reanimator by H.P. Lovecraft

Noteworthy Film Adaptations

cf. Dracula
"Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror" - 1922, dir. F.W. Murnau
"Dracula" - 1931, dir. Tod Browning, Karl Freund
"Bram Stoker's Dracula" - 1991, dir. Francis Ford Coppola
"Interview with a Vampire" - 1994, dir. Neil Jordan

cf. Frankenstein
"Frankenstein" - 1931, dir. James Whale
"Bride of Frankenstein" - 1935, dir. James Whale
"Young Frankenstein" - 1971, dir. Mel Brooks
"The Fly" - 1986, David Cronenberg

cf. Ghost Stories (Screw, Hill House)
"The Innocents" - 1961, dir. Jack Clayton
"The Haunting" - 1963, dir. Robert Wise

cf. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
"The Wolf Man" - 1941, dir. Curt Siodmak
"An American Werewolf in London" - 1981, dir. John Landis
"Ginger Snaps" - 2000, dir. John Fawcett